The 23rd Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 24
to August 17, 2014
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Wednesday, July 30, 2014, 2 PM
at Boswell Recital Hall
Piano Master Class
by
Mr. Hung-Kuan Chen
陳宏寬
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Program |
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Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 (Waldstein)
Hong-Zhen Wang
Chopin: Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54
Xiaoyi Xu
Liszt Sonata in B minor
Yue Zhang
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Hung-Kuan Chen
陳宏寬, Pianist
“This
man plays music with uncommon understanding and the instrument with
uncommon imagination…” -- Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
“…rarely have I heard such eloquence and musical understanding. Is
anyone listening?” -- Ruth Laredo
Hung-Kuan Chen has been described as one of the great personalities of
the music world: enigmatic, brilliant, and versatile. And he is admired
both as a performer of uncompromising individuality and as a remarkably
inspiring teacher.
Born in Taipei and raised in Germany, Chen's early studies fostered
strong roots in Germanic classicism, which he tempered with the
sensibility of Chinese philosophy: the result is a dynamic and
imaginative artistry. He is regarded as an extraordinary interpreter of
Beethoven’¦s music.
Chen’¦s career was launched when he won First Prize in the Young Concert
Artist’¡¦ Auditions, which presented him in his New York debut on the
Young Concert Artists Series and followed it with a second major New
York concert at Lincoln Cent’r¡¦s Alice Tully Ha One of the most
decorated pianists of his generation, Mr. Chen won top prizes in the
Arthur Rubinstein, the Busoni and the Geza Anda International Piano
Competitions, along with prizes in the Queen Elisabeth, Montreal, Van
Cliburn, and Chopin International Competition. He is a recipient of the
prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Chen has performed in the major cities of Asia, Europe, and the
Americas, where he has appeared with many important orchestras,
including Houston, Baltimore, Israel, Montreal, Pittsburgh, the Tonhalle,
San Francisco, and Shanghai. He has performed with such highly esteemed
conductors as Hans Graf, Christoph Eschenbach, George Cleve, Joseph
Silverstein, Andrew Parrott, and Sui Lan, and colleagues including Yo-Yo
Ma, Cho-Liang Lin, Roman Totenberg, Denes Zsigmondy, Bion Tsang, Anthony
Gigliotti, David Shifrin, Laurence Lesser, and pianists Tema Blackstone
and Pi-hsien Chen.
Chen was chair of the piano department of Shanghai Conservatory and
continues to co-direct the International Piano Academy in Shanghai.
Previously he was on the faculty of Boston University and was a
Distinguished Artist in Residence at Mount Royal University in Canada.
He has been a Professor at New England Conservatory of Music and the
Yale University. He will start teaching at the Juilliard School starting
September of 2014. Chen has adjudicated International Piano Competitions
such as the Van Cliburn, Busoni, and Honens, and is known as a brilliant
and devoted teacher.
In 1992, Chen suffered an injury to his hand that caused neurological
damage and eventually resulted in Focal Dystonia. Through Qi Gong
meditation and his own unique research, he was able to heal and return
to his life as a concert artist. In 1998, his first post-accident solo
recital received rave reviews, and he was described as a transformed
artist. Following his 2006 Jordan Hall concert, Richard Dyer wrote in
The Boston Globe: "Hung-Kuan Chen is back in prime technical form after
years of struggle following an injury, but those years have made him a
different pianist, and a better one. This man plays music with uncommon
understanding and the instrument with uncommon imagination."
Hung-Kuan Chen recently completed a concert tour playing in San
Francisco, Boston, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other major cities
worldwide. This followed his 2008 concert in Stern Auditorium of New
York's Carnegie Hall and major engagements in Asia in 2009. His Jordan
Hall recital was the first in a series of live recordings he is
projected to complete in 2016.
Hung-Kuan Chen is represented by Opus 3 Artists & Blackstone Artist
Management.
Artist Diploma, New England
Conservatory. Studies with Russell Sherman. Current director of the
International Piano Academy in Shanghai. Former Distinguished
Artist-in-Residence at Mount Royal Conservatory in Canada. Former piano
chair of Shanghai Conservatory, former faculty of Boston University and
New England Conservatory. Current professor at the Juilliard School and
the Yale University.
(6-2014)
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2014 |
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